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W. A. SIMOND. CAN OPENER.

No. 586,874. Patented July 20, 1897.

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\VALTER A. SIMOND, OF TILTON, NIUV HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO ARTHUR T.CASS, OF SAME PLACE.

CAN- PEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent NO. 586,874, dated July 20,1897.

Application filed July 30, 1896. Serial No. 601,022. (No modelJ To allwhom it may concern: tical member 10. The foot 11 is pointed and Be itknown that I, \V ALTER A. SIMOND, of its upper surface is usually madeflat, so that Tilton, in the county of Belknap and State of it mayengage readily against the under face New IIampshire have invented a newand of the head of a can into which the pivot-sec- 55 usefulImprovementin Can-Openers,of which tion may be introduced. At the rearend of the following is a full, clear, and exact dethe stem A a handle12 is secured, preferably scription. in a detachable manner.

The object of my invention is to construct Ayoke 1S ismounted to slideupon the stem, a can-opener of the central-pivot type comand the rearmember of this yoke is enlarged 60 IO prising but few parts and providedwith a where the yoke passes through it and is of cutter capable ofbeing readily and convensuch length that it may extend downward beientlyadjusted to open cans of different diyond the stem, and the lowerextremity of ameters, the cutter always opening the canthe longer memberof the yoke is shaped to top at the same distance from the side edge,form a spur ll, which is to engage with the 65 15 no matter whether thecan be large or small outer side face of the can and form a guide indiameter; and a further object of the infor the cutting portion of theopener. Arms veution is to improve upon the can-opener 15 are projectedlaterally from opposite sides for which Letters Patent were granted toA. H. of the longer member of the yoke above the Hall and O. 1. Hall May5,1874, No. 150,568, guide-spur 14., the said arms being adapted 7o insuch manner as to render this opener much to rest upon the upper face ofthe margin of more effective and much more conveniently the can to beopened. Each arm 15 has its operated without adding materially to theouter extremity inwardly bent at an angle. cost of its construction. tothe body of the arm, forming lips 16, the

The invention consists in the novel consaid lips being especiallyadapted to rest upon 75 strnction and combination of the several the topof the can to be opened, it not being parts, as will be hereinafterfully set forth, absolutely necessary that the bodyof the arms andpointed out in the claims. shall so engage.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying A hub 17 is mounted looselyon the stem A drawings, forming a part of this specification, betweenthe members of the yoke 13, and the 80 in which similar characters ofreference indisaid hub has secured to it or integrally formed catecorresponding parts in all the figures. thereon a disk cutter 18, whichis adapted to Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved enter the top orbottom of the can, according opener applied to a can. Fig. 2 is a sideeleto the part to be opened, and will always envation of the can-opener,parts being in secter the can a predetermined distance from its 8 5tion, the opener being shown as applied to a side edge, owing to theguide-spur 1a, which can, which latter is also in section. Fig. 3 iswill be brought to an engagement with the a section taken substantiallyon the lines 3 3 outer side face of the can, as shown in Fig. 2. ofFigs. 1 and 2; and Fig. 4. is a side elevation The yoke l5, asillustrated in Fig. 4, may of a portion of the opener, illustratingdoube made of suflicient size to accommodate 4o ble cutters, one beinginterchangeable with two cuttersnamely, the cutter 18 above rethe other.ferred to and a cutter 18, the hubs of which In carrying out theinvention a main stem are usually placed end to endand the rear A isemployed, which is preferably circular cutter 18 will not engage withthe can, being in cross-section, and the said main stem is located in adip or loop 10 formed in the provided at its outer or forward end with alonger member of the yoke, and when the pivot-section B, the saidpivot-section comlarger form of yoke is employed theguideprisinganiember 10, which is projected downspur 14 will be inadvance of the rear cutter, ward at an angle, usually a right angle, tothe sustaining the same relation to the forward stem A, and a foot 11,which is given parallel critter as the spur shown in Fig. a does to thetoo 50 position with the stem yet extends forwardly single cutter. henthe forward cutter bebeyond it and at a right angle to the vercomesdulled, the handle 12 may be removed and the two cutters taken out, andin replacing the cutters the rear or auxiliary cutter will be placed atthe front.

It will be observed that this device is exceedingly simple, durable, andeconomic, and that when its pivot 13 is entered into the central portionof the top or bottom of a can and its stem A is pressed downward thecutter will enter the head of the can and will make a clean continuouscut around the entire circumference of the head, it being simplynecessary to hold the stem A downward and at the same time give it acircular movement.

The arms 15 and their extensions serve when in engagement with the headof the can to prevent the cutter from dragging, permitting it to performits work without any hindrance and likewise enabling a person tomanipulate the entire cutter with the least possible exertion andwithout difliculty.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A can-opener having a main stem at one end ofwhich is a pivot-point, a rotary cutter freely slidable and revoluble onthe main stem, a yoke embracing the rotary cutter and having its armsperforated to slidably mount the yoke on the main stem, one arm of theyoke having a downwardly-extending guidespur capable of running aroundthe outer edge of the can, and said arm of the yoke also having twooppositelyin'ojected lateral arms capable of running along the uppersurface of the can to hold the yoke in a vertical position,substantially as described.

2. A can opener, having a stem with a pivot-point at one end, a yokeeach arm of which loosely receives the stem whereby the yoke may movetoward and from the pivot, and a cutter freely slidable and revoluble onthe stem and inclosed by the yoke, the outer portion of one arm of theyoke being plane in a transverse line to rest said portion on the top ofthe can when the opener is operating and to hold the yoke in a verticalposition, and a guide-spur projecting longitudinally from the lower endof the outer arm of the yoke and running in operation around the outerside of the can, substantially as described.

- A canopener, having a stem at one end of which is a pivot-point, avertically-sustained yoke each arm of which has an opening receiving thestem, whereby the yoke is freely movable on the stem and a cutterslidable and revoluble on the stem and inclosed by the yoke, the yokehaving a guide-spur projecting longitudinally from the outer arm of theyoke and running in operation around the outer side of the can,substantially as described.

YVALTER A. SIMOND.

Witnesses:

ANNIE C. SIMoNDs, 'G. M. SIMOND.

